I would like your opinion as to this practice being done by U.S. authorities when it comes to “catching” child predators.
I have seen many episodes of the “investigate news” coverage ‘Dateline’ program where a deviant pervert (on behalf of the program) goes online to pose as an underage child to then “entice” the other pervert which is a moron pedophiliac.
My question is this; what does this do to weed out the real pedophiles on the internet?
Isn’t this entrapment, isn’t it obvious that a pedophile will go for a child?
Deep down inside I loathe these pedophiles as much as a loathe these pervs who go online attempting to entrap people left to right… I mean, how do we know these undercover idiots are not into illegal porn themselves?
Is this moral to the taxpayers is my actual question?
**NOTE, BEFORE SOME TROLLING IDIOT WHO’S PROBABLY INTO KID PORN THEMSELVES ASNWERS BY EVEN REMOTELY ACCUSING ME OF THE UNTHINKABLE, GO F YOURSELF YOU SICK IDIOT, GET A LIFE***
Thank you all.
2007-09-09 07:31:11 · 11 answers · asked by M R 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
*Addendum* What I meant to convey was that is it moral for the authorities to hire “independent” agencies dealing with posing as children, when these very same employees could be very well be child pedophiles themselves?
(Captain, I’ll write in a more Shakespearean language next time you decide to troll me)
2007-09-09 08:00:17 · update #1
It is entrapment. If a private agency employs kids to entice pedophiles , the private agency is only pimping. As such the agency should be prosecuted.Making money through enticement also is a crime. A deviant can be punished only if he forces some victim to submission.Having a deviant personality in itself is not a crime.
2007-09-09 19:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not entrapment because in those cases the police are not contacting the suspects. If you watch the show carefully they explain that the group posing as underage victims online are not police officers. Therefore, it is not entrapment by the police. However, even if it were the police posing as the underage victims, it would have to be shown that the police officers enticed the suspects to do something they would not normally do for it to be considered entrapment. On any of the shows I have seen, it has been the suspect who has mentioned meeting the victims. As it is the idea of the suspect to meet, it is not entrapment.
2007-09-09 14:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what morality has to do with it, but it IS legal. How is this different from an undercover cop pretending to be a prostitute or a drug dealer? When they're trying to get certain types of people off the streets, they have to be creative in order to "catch them in the act" because the crimes involve certain behaviors that people try to do in private because it's harder to get caught that way. It's not like a traffic violation or armed robbery where it's often done in broad daylight and with several witnesses.
Sure there is the occasional "bad cop" who participates in their own illegal activities on the side, but same as anyone else, we just have to hope that they will get caught one day. I'm pretty sure Dateline has tricked an off-duty cop or two.
Hope this helps.
2007-09-09 14:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, watching some of those shows,
they seem to step very carefully around
"Entrapment".
The "kid" never issues an invitation, or
initiates a meeting, that's
always left up to the 'perv.`
2007-09-09 14:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by Irv S 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is entrapment at all. The decoys NEVER contact one of the perverts first. Never. The perverts make all the moves. Anything to get these sickos off the streets is good as far as I am concerned. We need to protect our children.
2007-09-09 14:44:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is it moral for banks to have money, which in turn, entraps people with guns to rob those banks?
Is it moral for women to go out without an armed escort, knowing poor rapists may be tempted to rape then?
Wow, what a line of thought...... I think you're on to something...
Lets make it illegal for people to have anything that tempts poor criminals to commit crimes.
We can start with making banks and women illegal.. then move on to other illegal things. Gas, cars, houses, kids, the list is endless.
Or, we could make it legal to do anything you're big enough or well armed enough to get away with.
America home of the truly free........
2007-09-09 14:52:30 · answer #6 · answered by edmond_dixon 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nice language. Anyway, it probably is entrapment but nobody cares! You know, I wonder though, if the person pretending to be a child does not innitiate the idea of meeting someone rather it is the suspect that does that, if that avoids the entrapment defense.
2007-09-09 14:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by Captain 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I don't know that it's moral -- but, is it any more immoral than people trying to have sex with children?
Is it illegal?
Not really -- police are allowed to lie to get information.
2007-09-09 21:40:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I find it quite appalling that people are being arrested just for trying to look at some delicious flat chest.
2007-09-10 00:09:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps people Justify it From the Ratings.
2007-09-09 14:38:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋